Newspaper headlines at the time, and traditional wisdom in the succeeding decades, have held that women and children escaped the Titanic in greater proportions than men. Here's a table with the relevant data. Do you think that survival was independent of whether the person was male or female? Explain.

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Female Male Total Alive 343 367 710 Dead 127 1364 1491 Total 470 1731 2201